Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music has some great free offerings this month….

On Monday, the Nightcap Series features “All in the Family” which is Violist Kathryn Plummer and her niece Erin Hall, violin and Erin’s husband Erik Gratton, flute. (both play in the Nashville Symphony) Blair musicologist Jim Lovensheimer will conduct the pre-concert conversation at 8 p.m. with the 50 minute performance following.

On Feb. 15, the Blakemore Trio (Amy Dorfman, piano, Carolyn Huebl, violin and Felix Wang, cello) will celebrate more than 10 years of making music together, with a CD release party and free program featuring “Four movements for Piano Trio,” written by MacArthur fellow Bright Sheng, and Judith Weir’s “Piano Trio Two.” A chamber music classic by Mendelssohn’s closes the 8 p.m. program. A reception follows and CDs will be on sale.

Blair School of Music dean Mark Wait noted that “Of special note this month is a concert performance on Feb 23 by Eric Owens, one of the rising stars of the Metropolitan Opera. Owens’ performance is free and open to the public, but due to anticipated high demand, tickets will be required and are available now in the Blair School of Music office between the hours of 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, and there is a limit of two tickets per person. Advance tickets must be picked up in person.

Additional tickets will be available in the Ingram Hall box office the night of the concert, starting at 6 p.m. Once all seats in the house are filled, overflow seating will be available to watch a live feed of the performance on a large screen.

Another February Vanderbilt treat is that Blair and the Nashville Symphony are offering a joint presentation of The Red Violin, which includes a free Feb 26 screening of the film at Blair (introduced by Nashville Symphony concertmaster and Blair professor Jun Iwasaki), It will take place a few weeks before the March performance by the Nashville Symphony of John Corigliano’s concerto from the film at the Schermerhorn(which is not free)
Details: Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, 2400 Blakemore Ave. See: www.blair.vanderbilt.edu or call 615-322-7651

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